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Although this is a hardtype hack, I don't remember it being hard. Instead, it was more fun and interesting.

The magic system has been reworked into more of the FF7 materia system via relics, which is an interesting choice of how this was dealt with.

Here are some good reasons:

• Instead of wasting time trying to rotate espers to learn them, you will spend time rotating relics to a select few characters.
• You don't have to worry about leveling up to maximize stats, since every esper has had their stat bonus disabled. This may disappoint some people, but stat maxing in the original game can put people off at times.

The bulk of the challenge gets reduced to a pulp quickly once you figure out what you can get via the Coliseum. Then again, many hacks have been done like this, so it is hard to argue how this system has evolved to benefit the player.

The only negative though is that there seems to be a number of bugs that practically hinders the enjoyment of the game, which hopefully will get patched...

It's hard to argue the uniqueness of this hack and it's best to look at this hack as "something fun and different" than it being a "hardtype" hack which I don't believe is the proper term for it. It is very much worth playing for the sake of enjoyment, if not to find it a little different than most hacks.